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Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is primarily about exploring American institutions. [1] In 2017, The New York Times called him "one of the most important and original filmmakers working today".
Frederick Wiseman. Director: National Gallery. Born in 1930, Wiseman is a Cambridge, Massachusetts resident and member of the Massachusetts Bar Association who turned to filmmaking in 1967, after years as an instructor and/or researcher at Boston University, Brandeis University, and Harvard.
May 3, 2018 · Frederick Wiseman is a legend among filmmakers, a documentarian who’s been chronicling American life and institutions with a keen eye. His 41 winsome, thoughtful, and often funny films — about ...
May 21, 2024 · Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American filmmaker noted for his documentaries that examine the functioning of American institutions. Wiseman was educated at Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts (B.A., 1951), and at Yale Law School (L.L.B., 1954.).
Jul 17, 2018 · Strung out between Five Easy Pieces (1970) and The Driller Killer (1979), Welfare is one of the great movies of American existentialism – a Sisyphean dispatch from the broken frontier. As Barry Keith Grant writes in 5 Films by Frederick Wiseman, his films are alive with “what Emerson called the ‘primal warblings’ of the American people ...
Nov 25, 2023 · And what a meal it is: Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, the 44th documentary from Frederick Wiseman, focuses on a renowned three-Michelin-star restaurant in Ouches, central France. It is the latest ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Frederick Wiseman turns ninety-four in January. He has been making movies since 1967—forty-seven films in all, most of them about American institutions: a racetrack, a hospital, an evangelical ...
